Dean Post Welcomes New Students
Dean Robert C. Post ’77 welcomed the newest class of Yale Law Students to New Haven during convocation on Monday, August 22, 2016.
U.N. Acknowledges Responsibility for Haiti Cholera Outbreak
Three years after the Global Health Justice Partnership and Transnational Development Clinic at Yale Law School published a report showing that the United Nations inadvertently caused a deadly cholera epidemic in Haiti, the intergovernmental organization has acknowledged responsibility for the first time.
WIRAC Files Lawsuit Over Family Immigration Detention Abuses
Two refugees who fled violence and persecution in Central America filed suit against the Obama Administration for the alleged unlawful and inhumane treatment they received when they first arrived in the United States.
Law and Guido Calabresi
Sterling Professor Emeritus Guido Calabresi ’58 discusses the nuances found within the law and economics movement, a theoretical mode of analysis that Calabresi himself pioneered in the mid-twentieth century.
Professor Meares to Judge MacArthur Foundation Competition
Tracey Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor and Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School, will serve as an evaluating judge for a new competition recently launched that will award a $100 million grant to a single proposal designed to help solve a critical problem affecting people, places, or the planet.
Ido Kilovaty Joins GLC as New Cyber Fellow
Ido Kilovaty has joined The Center for Global Legal Challenges at Yale Law School as the new Cyber Fellow.
Professors Tyler and Meares to Hold Webinar on Procedural Justice
Professors Tom Tyler and Tracey Meares will present research during a free webinar on “The Importance of Enhancing Procedural Justice in Interactions with Juveniles," on July 27 at 2pm.
Government Responds to Captain Smith Lawsuit
The United States government has responded to a lawsuit brought by a U.S Army Captain against President Barack Obama with a motion to dismiss. The brief was filed in U.S District for the District of Columbia on July 11, 2016. The lawsuit, Smith v. Obama, was filed in May by Attorney David Remes on behalf of Captain Nathan Michael Smith. Smith is currently deployed to the Kuwait headquarters of the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, which commands all forces in support of the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Professor Bruce Ackerman is collaborating with Remes on the...